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Rising each morning for practice before the sun comes up and taking a mid-morning recovery nap while the rest of us are still hitting the snooze button is de rigeur for this carbohydrate-fueled dynamo. Her notes are impeccably organized, her sourcebook is marked up in three different sets of highlighter and her outfits rarely deviate from the sweatpants and Crimson Crazies combo accesorized with a bottle of Smart Water. Out and about on the weekend, she’s wearing Abercrombie jeans in a cross-hatch wash, a black tank in slinky jersey and a little too much...
...innovative and thoughtful paper. Yet in a stunning number of social science classes, especially government classes, professors demand no outside research—in fact, they discourage it by explicitly declaring that all the sources needed for a paper are included in the comfort of your very own sourcebook. These papers prioritize good writing and solid arguments, but they place little value on rigorous thought and dedicated research...
...other business, the council resolved to upgrade the software for its online UC Marketplace and approved a resolution to encourage Faculty members to put sourcebook content on the library system’s e-reserve system, which is free to students...
Everyone but the most devoted readers of the Salient know that Feldstein teaches a distorted introduction to economics, passing off his personal beliefs as economic law. A substantial proportion of the articles in the Ec 10 sourcebook were penned by Feldstein himself and on many topics, only one side of the debate is included (such as his famous privatizing social security lecture). The course is so rife with bias that even The New York Times couldn’t resist a little Feldstein bashing: “Thousands of Harvard undergraduates have received a decidedly anti-tax, free-market-leaning...
...Marglin ’59 as an alternative to Ec 10 is not the best solution to the problems with the current course (News, “Petition Argues For Alternative To Ec 10 Course”, March 3). Fixing Ec 10 by balancing the readings in the sourcebook, stating the assumptions that lead to politically controversial conclusions, and providing students with more of an opportunity to interact with and question the material would be more effective. Marglin is quoted as saying that his class would be “for those who want to work harder and who want...